A new chapter has been written in the global competition for artificial intelligence and computing infrastructure: the vision of operating AI data centers not on Earth, but in space. This ambitious endeavor is currently being driven by Elon Musk and his space company SpaceX, which has just acquired xAI . But Google and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are also exploring similar concepts. Yet how realistic is the idea of relocating data centers to orbit — both technically and economically? The idea of